Sky Germany, the U.K.'s Channel 4 and super-indie Fremantle are backing a three-part doc series about the con, which was spearheaded by the mysterious Dr. Ruja Ignatova, who is still on the run . When we started planning the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast in late 2018, no-one really had a clue what happened to Dr Ruja after her disappearance. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. They are desperate to get their hands on the conwoman, offering a $100,000 reward for intel that ultimately leads to her arrest. After Jen McAdam invested into OneCoin she was constantly told she was part of the OneCoin "family". Game over.". We've received your submission. She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. She vanished, he said, because she was afraid that somebody close to her was going to give her up to the FBI. How a con man duped struggling farmers into a pigeon breeding scheme that had fraud written all over it. Bang!". Police have warned that she has likely had plastic surgery to change her appearance, with hopes low that she would ever be caught. Taking seriously Alan McLean's advice about studying Dr Ruja's life before OneCoin, Georgia and I turn to the internet, which fortunately never forgets anything. The Federal Criminal Police Office announced a 5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. "I've never told her directly that it's not going to work - that there is no more money, there's no more hope," he tells me. Its working title is Fake! The daughter, we were informed, might be in Frankfurt. Born on May 30, 1980, in Bulgaria, Ignatova moved to Germany with her family when she was 10 years old. One of the main OneCoin offices in Kampala is attached to a church. In fact, she had gone underground. [27][28], Ignatova was married to the German lawyer Bjorn Strehl, with whom she had a daughter in 2016.[2][29]. Another tip he gives us is to find out where she has been on her yacht. I don't want those people I introduced into OneCoin to see me moving around. As in other countries, OneCoin has spread here through networks of friends and families. ), 'Hun, this could be your opportunity to get rich'. Dr Ruja had vanished. I would have just turned my back and walked away," he says. Maybe 1,000 wasn't enough? Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding. OneCoin was a familiar scam with a digital twist - a new and hugely successful take on the old pyramid scheme. There are videos of the minister, known as Bishop Fred, leading the congregation in call and response. This is also where Dr Ruja's husband - or perhaps ex-husband - lives and works. "I've been telling her it's changing. Beginning in . They live in an enormous house in an affluent neighbourhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. However, in October 2017, the scammer completely vanished as authorities circled and she hasnt been seen since. List of fugitives from justice who disappeared, " 41- , ", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran", "The mystery of the disappearing 'Cryptoqueen', "The 4bn OneCoin scam: how crypto-queen Dr Ruja Ignatova duped ordinary people out of billions then went missing", "Is OneCoin The Biggest Financial Fraud in History? "We gathered the teams together and we started to work like crazy," he says. In May 2015, already a very successful MLM seller, Igor Alberts was invited to a OneCoin event in Dubai, where he met lots of people, all apparently making fortunes with this new currency. When Georgia and I called them ourselves to check, they confirmed it. Files seen by the BBC from Europol meetings suggest the FBI-wanted fugitive knew about efforts to arrest her months before she vanished. [2][7], Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, in 1980,[8] to a Romani family. Onecoin's Ruja Ignatova is a mysterious woman who has been on the run for over three years now. Ignatovas brother, Konstantin Ignatova, took over the operation after she fled. It's thought to be a key anti-corruption tool. In addition to losing their own money, they were the instigators for their loved ones to lose their investments as well. According to Bjercke, Dr Ruja never expected OneCoin to grow so big. [5][6], Since 2017, Ignatova has been on the run from various international law enforcement agencies. She spotted that society's defence against OneCoin - the law-makers, the police, and also us in the media would struggle to understand what was happening. After Dr Ruja's non-appearance in Lisbon, a point came when Igor Alberts, like Jen McAdam, asked to see evidence of the blockchain. She is thought to have undergone several plastic surgeries in order to alter her appearance. ", Some action at the OneCoin HQ at last. Even Google - 'Don't listen to Google!'" Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. Igor returned with a new mission - and gave new instructions to all the salespeople in his downline: stop whatever you're doing, and start selling OneCoin. The documents show attendees from Bulgaria's Interior Ministry at the March 2017 Europol meeting. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." Bulgarian-born German citizen Ruja Ignatova, 42, and a business partner called Sebastian Greenwood conned crypto enthusiasts by claiming their crypto token, OneCoin, would be a Bitcoin killer. On the run since 2017, Dr Ruja Ignat She would have known that we were looking for her, he added, and she would have laughed at us. [23] This listing was reciprocated by Europol adding Ignatova to its 'most wanted' list; however, Deutsche Welle notes that the Europol listing was removed under unknown circumstances. She would urge and convince simple people to invest in OneCoin and not be left out of the huge potential profits. Before too long they had passed 100,000 - a 10-fold return. The inescapable conclusion was that those rising numbers on the OneCoin website were meaningless - they were just numbers typed into a computer by a OneCoin employee. But this is the first principle to grasp: money is only valuable because other people think it's valuable. "OneCoins principals continue to operate from Bulgaria," according to Dr Levy. She lives in a concrete house with a tin roof - five small rooms, a small television and a cooking area. Her biggest aspiration was just to be rich. If it's true she was in these countries earlier this year, she probably has a fake identity. Since then, he has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering and fraud charges, and is due to be sentenced next month. In October 2022, a documentary called "CryptoqueenThe OneCoin Scam" debuted at Mipcom Cannes. When there is nothing of value to sell, though, and all the money is made by recruiting other people, it is illegal and goes by another name: a pyramid scheme. They didn't feel they were taking a risk, because they trusted Ruja and her education and work experience. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. OneCoin,. Why have so many people continued to believe in OneCoin, despite all the evidence? Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. Another lead comes our way when we pay a visit to a bizarre OneCoin beauty pageant in Bucharest. Unlike Ignatova, however, he didnt stay free for very long. Investigative reporter Jamie Bartlett, host ofThe Missing Cryptoqueenpodcast, in conjunction with the BBC, initially flagged a tenuous link between the fraudster and the penthouse. Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", received police information about investigations into her $4bn (3.5bn) cryptocurrency fraud before she disappeared, it is claimed. "You're in at such an early stage and it's just going to go like Bitcoin. Read about our approach to external linking. The family had saved about 3,000 to buy a maize store so that Daniel's mother could stop spending every day in the fields. OneCoins other co-founder, Sebastian Greenwood, also fled. And literally my legs just went, and I fell on the floor,'" she says. It wasn't a place we'd previously thought of looking. 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This was the secret of OneCoin's success. So when an opportunity arises, they have the fear of missing out. In early June 2016 a 36-year-old businesswoman called Dr Ruja Ignatova walked on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans. And, most frustratingly of all, she correctly guessed that by the time we realised it, she'd be gone, along with the money. The US Department of Justice, New York County District Attorney's Office, and Dubai Police did not comment. "There's the answer, right from the horse's mouth, it's official," said one promoter from Alberta, Canada, in a video posted online. She never appeared. He tells me he's received death threats as a result of speaking out. OneCoin was still growing fast, and Dr Ruja was starting to spend her new fortune: buying multi-million-dollar properties in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and the Black Sea resort of Sozopol. "What's the name of the company?" Then he says I should check what yachts were bought in Athens around the time she arrived there from Sofia. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved. she shouted. 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. While in Waltenhofen, we learned that she had a German husband, a lawyer for the well-known firm, Linklaters. Oliver describes this kind of dizzying arrangement as "improbably standard". pic.twitter.com/Qv2nNE8Mwf. Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. If nothing else it should make it easier for the authorities to freeze that asset and maybe even start getting money back to victims.. Twitter Ruja Ignatova was added to the FBI's Ten Most. In this legal case, it is claimed that Ignatova acquired about 230,000 bitcoins, the largest known transaction for bitcoins, worth $48.5 million, from an Emirati royal in 2015. "When you look at my clothes, they are disciplined," he says. "She was on her way. The OneCoin founder is now wanted by . Then he tries checking the company's owners. But they used some of this cash to buy more OneCoin. she replied, sharply. There have been several alleged sightings of her, and it is believed that she could be travelling in the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and Dubai. A few weeks after our meeting Alan gets back in touch, with some amazing information. That's the most important thing of all," he says. Daniel took me and Georgia to meet Prudence, who first introduced him to OneCoin. Alberts was brought up in a poor neighbourhood. From the very beginning, she was a gifted child and always at the top of her class. Looking to get ideas for places to take our 3 year old while in Frankfurt. But by this stage, thanks to Curry and Bjercke, she knew that a standard SQL server database was no basis for a genuine cryptocurrency. It's going to go bigger. "Go back to her life before OneCoin. This scam is estimated to be well over four billion dollars. After Jennifer lost her money, she pursued Ignatova for six years and she was disappointed when the City of London police closed their investigation in 2019, saying they could not locate any assets of OneCoin or its founders in the UK. The listing of a property in the heart of London has brought a notorious cryptocurrency fugitive who ran a $4 billion Ponzi scheme out of the woodwork. Ruja Ignatova celebrating her birthday with her husband and OneCoin members. When investors became members promoting OneCoin, they were getting a percentage margin on the proceeds from the people they had introduced and persuaded to invest in the company. Some feared she'd been killed or kidnapped by the banks, who - they'd been told - had most to fear from the cryptocurrency revolution. In Europe, less money was invested in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. "Maybe you can tell her Maybe" he says. Could she really be hiding out in the heart of the EU? Its understood Ignatova purchased the property under a company name, but a new rule means that the beneficiary of said company must also be named in full. Between August 2014 and March 2017 more than 4bn was invested in dozens of countries. The nature of MLM networks - where people often recruit others who are close to them - creates a blurred sense of responsibility. So it's our blockchain technology, a SQL server with a database.". Up to 90 years for the Ponzi scheme. She had been impressed by Ruja and the upward trend in the price of OneCoin without the fluctuations other cryptocurrencies usually have. We already knew that Dr Ruja spent some of her childhood in Schramberg, southern Germany. There, she recruited members to promote OneCoin and sell to their friends and relatives. "We made in our first month almost 90,000 out of nothing. he shouts. The Bulgarian woman, believed to be in her 40s, is wanted for her alleged. A court reporter was there to hear his testimony, and according to his account of the proceedings Ignatov appears to have implied that his sister had duped him with the same line the organisation put out to its investors - that OneCoin critics were "haters" who could not be believed. Following her studies, she became a . Around the same time, the US authorities charged Dr Ruja in absentia for wire fraud, security fraud and money laundering. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Covid origin likely China lab incident - FBI chief, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US. On the same day he was arrested, the FBI declared OneCoin a fraudulent currency. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. It's not clear who Bjorn and Igor are talking about, or whether they are even talking about the same people, but the US Department of Justice claims to have evidence of a link between Dr Ruja's brother, Konstantin Ignatov - who took over the running of OneCoin when Ruja disappeared - and "significant players in Eastern European organised crime". At one, in July 2017, the American pop star Bebe Rexha performed a private set. The self-styled cryptoqueen even posted a video one week after the birth of her daughter, thanking people for their support and gifts. "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to 100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' The police files contain presentations made at an "Operation Satellite" Europol meeting in The Hague on 15 March 2017. So with Georgia Catt, producer of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, I went to see Oliver Bullough, an expert on what he calls Moneyland - the shadowy parallel world where criminals and the super-rich hide their wealth. It's no surprise, then, that OneCoin's corporate structure is incredibly complicated. In early June 2016 a 36-year-old businesswoman called Dr Ruja Ignatova walked on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans. Less than a year later, the warning was removed from the website. There's a famous saying in journalism, "Follow the money." [24], The Federal Bureau of Investigation added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and announced at a joint press conference with IRS Criminal Investigation and United States Attorney's Office Southern District of New York, offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to her arrest. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times has described as "one of the biggest scams in history". At first she was told it was something she didn't need to know, but when she persisted she finally got the truth in a voicemail in April 2017. Amazingly, even after this, OneCoin continued to function - and people continued to invest in it. He points out that he spent millions buying OneCoin, possibly more than anyone else. I pay 100 to start selling vitamin tablets directly to people. "I think she was so scared in the fall of 2017 that she decided to skip.". This proved to be fraudulent and she was sentenced to 14 months suspended jail sentence. It was a Ponzi scheme. It said the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast "will not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased". She could hear the whoops and cheers of thousands of adoring fans in the background. According to the Irish Daily Mail, filmmaker Scott Z. Burns, who is behind the production, described McAdam as the new Erin Brockovich. Several of the people Georgia and I interviewed spoke darkly about mysterious people and connections they didn't want to name. She left with a tremendous amount of cash, FBI spokesman Michael Driscoll added. Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, with Jamie Bartlett and producer Georgia Catt, on BBC Sounds. There is a BBC Sounds podcast called "The Missing Cryptoqueen." Despite the successful facade, trouble was brewing. (She received a fine and a suspended sentence in October 2016.) She had got hold of a "big passport", he said, and asked him to get her plane tickets to Vienna, then Athens. "Acting on behalf of investors and creditors of OneCoin," Levy described it as one of the largest and most successful financial pyramids in history, seeking an investigation of misfeasance by the Bulgarian government for taking no steps to seize assets from OneCoin including real estate, bank accounts, and 230,000 Bitcoins.. [2][3][4] She is the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. (Her) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money.. In October 2017, Ruja was scheduled to appear in a OneCoin promotional event in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. We should try to get the tracker off it, he says, and he doesn't appear to be joking. They would always need someone in charge who could manipulate the supply, and forgery was too easy. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. She knew there would be enough people either desperate enough, or greedy enough, or confused enough to take a bet on OneCoin. The FBI added Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the so-called 'Cryptoqueen,' to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives. McAdam started a Facebook support group for other defrauded victims of OneCoin. It was a cryptocurrency company, and it had been running for a while - but it didn't have a blockchain. 2023 BBC. People involved at the early stages have told him it was never supposed to be a billion-dollar scam. By contrast, Jen McAdam says she bears a heavy burden of guilt. In court, US prosecutors alleged in 2019 that Mr Schneider was the one who provided her with confidential police information, although it is not clear if the allegations relate specifically to the leaked files seen by the podcast. In the FBI's' 72-year history, Ruja is only the 11th woman to appear on this list. '", Money might push people to invest in the first place, but the sense of belonging, of doing something, of achieving something, is why they stay, Barker says. This was to be resolved at a large gathering of European OneCoin promoters in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2017. It seemed like easy money. Dr Ruja was still travelling the world to sell her vision - hopping from Macau to Dubai to Singapore, filling out arenas, pulling in new investors. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. [21][22] An Interpol Red Notice followed. ", "Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Leaders Of "OneCoin," A Multibillion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Involving The Sale Of A Fraudulent Cryptocurrency", "BKA - Fahndung nach Personen - Ruja IGNATOVA", https://moneyweek.com/economy/people/605142/ruja-ignatova-profile-crooked-cryptoqueen, "The Outrageous Case of OneCoin, the Billion Dollar Scam Sold as a "Bitcoin Killer", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished", "OneCoin Took In Billions. "The problem is that when you create this company, no-one checks any of the information provided." She had no computer or smartphone, to do her own research. There were rumours of course - lots of them. Members could later exchange these educational packages, ranging from 100 euros to 118,000 euros, for OneCoins. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. The stranger was Timothy Curry, a Bitcoin enthusiast and cryptocurrency advocate. We will be there for a week and wanted to take various day trips as well as tour the actual city. "No other company even came close," Alberts says. 16 months' suspended imprisonment for a previous case. [25] The FBI followed up with an episode of its podcast and YouTube series Inside the FBI devoted to Ignatova and the OneCoin case. From that amount, he had collected $50 million in fees. He has denied obtaining the documents and said: "When the Bulgarians participated at certain Europol meetings, it only took hours for her to get a complete rundown and get the minutes of what was said in those meetings. In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection to the acquisition of a steel company that she and her father acquired. On 5 November 2019, the day after the final episode of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast was released, Dr Ruja's brother, Konstantin Ignatov, appeared in court in New York, testifying for the government in a case against a lawyer accused of laundering $400m of the money OneCoin made in the US. "One Coin!" The police documents were passed to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast by Frank Schneider, a former spy and trusted adviser to Ms Ignatova. I felt proud of her.". "If they still thought we were a fraudulent company, then guess what, that warning's not removed. He already had 400,000 shillings in savings, and to raise the rest he returned from the capital, Kampala, to his family home, took three goats raised by his younger brothers, and sold them. It's hard to say.". That meant that investors could no longer trade their OneCoins and retrieve their investments. It's also been suggested that there are powerful people who might protect her in her native Bulgaria - and that she could hide in plain sight because of plastic surgery that makes her unrecognisable. Sitting at her computer, the Glaswegian clicked on a link and joined a OneCoin webinar. All over the world, people were already investing their savings into OneCoin, hoping to be part of this new revolution. "They're very easy to set up and they look legitimate.". Over the next several weeks, Curry sent a stream of information about how cryptocurrencies work: links, articles, YouTube videos. But besides loving books, he was also a master book thief. They were simply recording their transactions internally. Investors might not have understood the technology, but they could see her talking to huge audiences, or at the Economist conference. He clicks to see the company's filing history, but where you should see company accounts, there is nothing. In early 2019, she was charged in absentia by U.S. authorities for wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. A senior promoter gave her a nice car to impress customers, and instructed her to visit farmers when their crops were being harvested and they had money in their pocket. Ignatova founded Onecoin in concert with Sebastian Greenwood and her brother, Konstantin Ignatov. From either Greece or Romania Dr Ruja could be extradited to the US. To explain this, I need first to explain briefly how a cryptocurrency actually works. "You've been planning, planning for something. In an ideal world, regulators would take action to protect consumers from scams like OneCoin. And if you get in early, there's the chance to make a fortune. It represents the dark side of rapid technological change - the way that every new technology creates amazing new opportunities and possibilities for people who understand it, but also the chance to exploit the people who don't. At the gated entrance to their mansion is a 10ft-high wrought iron gate with their names and the slogan "What dreams may come". MLM is not illegal. The fact that OneCoin was operating internationally also created difficulties for the authorities. Lots of money. The BBC asked the ministry whether its staff could be responsible for the leak, but it did not comment. But we were still surprised when, during our internet searches, Frankfurt started appearing over and over again. It's easy as that.". So much for following the money. The documents include details of US authorities having a "high-placed confidential informant", OneCoin bank accounts receiving investor funds, and unsuccessful efforts by the UK's City of London Police to interview Ms Ignatova. Daniel is one of thousands of Ugandans who've bought into Dr Ruja's fake cryptocurrency - and the OneCoin financial documents leaked to the BBC reveal that as time went on, investors like him became increasingly important to OneCoin. FBI records presented in court documents earlier this year indicate that on 25 October 2017, just two weeks after her Lisbon no-show, she boarded a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens. And McAdam's leader prepared her carefully for conversations with OneCoin sceptics. To buy the packages some sold their cattle, their land and even their houses - with disastrous consequences. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. She understood that truth and lies are getting harder to tell apart when there is so much contradictory information online. London, June 11, 2016. He was arrested in March 2019 at LA Airport as he was about to board a flight to Bulgaria. In November 2021, her stake would have peaked at nearly $15 billion, but it has now dropped, still more than enough to help her stay hidden.". 66K views, 1.6K likes, 214 loves, 348 comments, 854 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Cryptoqueen: I would like to share some very personal and exciting news with you. The FCA said it had been up for long enough, but OneCoin promoters presented this as proof that the UK authorities considered OneCoin a legitimate investment. The worlds most wanted woman is now officially listed as the ultimate beneficial owner of a London penthouse,he told iNews. When you're dealing with a scam worth billions of euros, it's not unusual for shadowy groups to get involved. This is clearly a question for a professional, which is why Georgia and I went to see private investigator Alan McLean. Frantic calls and messages went unanswered. 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